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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News If capitalism is to blame for climate change, can it also be the best hope to stop it? That’s the paradox that HBS alumni in Southern California confronted in a sold-out, faculty-led roundtable discussion on business and climate change held in Los... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Carol Ahn Markowitz’s gambit was in trouble. It was mid-2013, two years after she and her songwriter husband had left their life in Los Angeles for New Orleans with visions of being part of the city’s post-Hurricane Katrina revival. But... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
dreams—just not in the way that any of us expected. Ethan Kurzweil (MBA 2008) Bessemer Venture Partners Power of the Pivot In 2008, a few members of the New York Angels met with a founder of a company called Tote, which was developing an... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable profession.” Right out of college, he... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Tank ($300,000 for 15 percent of the company) and an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The Question: Traditional card display stands won’t work for Lovepop’s creations, in part because the stands only show the front of a card. They... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a team without funds, to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
it was longer. When I first invested, Elon actually said to me, “Are you fine with your money being completely locked up?” I think he said 15 years. And I said, “Sure.” If you’re interested in seeing what companies are out there, there is a platform called Space View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
angel investing.” Ventura, who serves as an adviser and mentor at TaFF and TBFI, contributed to all seven virtual sessions, introducing the HBS alumni mentors, and sharing guidance and advice to the startups. A team from TBFI followed up... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Image by Greg Betza Alison Rapaport (MBA 2018) has always been passionate about sports, both as a spectator and a participant. “I love being part of a team and I’m super competitive, so I like to win,” she laughs. Rapaport grew up in Los View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
tools and adapting them to their own contexts. We're really transforming their thinking." Feedback from PELP participants supports that assessment. For istance, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest district in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the potential of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). But over time, BRT’s potential as a first-class, environmentally sound transit mode was forgotten. It was not until the late 1990s that BRT was “rediscovered” in Curitiba, Brazil, as part of the search by the City of Los View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
multiplex. Why bother, when you can watch a movie in your “home theater,” complete with high-definition screen and surround sound? Last year was dubbed “year of the missing moviegoer” by the Los Angeles Times, with box office receipts... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
funds or via angel networks, have to recognize that this is a real opportunity to make money,” Dorsen says. The fund is making progress on that front. The Women’s Venture Capital Fund investors were once predominantly women. Now almost 50... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From that first welcome party in the... View Details